Firewall Deck #759963 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 36/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Control
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Midrange
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-monster pressure (Maliss Link Summons such as Hearts Crypter, Red Ransom, Accesscode Talker) after the hand-trap and negation shell clears the opponent's interaction; Bystial 2500-ATK Dragons from the Main Deck, plus Firewall Dragon 2500 from the Extra Deck
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Maliss starter or Backup @Ignister, use Maliss search and Set-then-activate Traps to reach a Link 3-4 board, and hold Infinite Impermanence, Ash Blossom or Effect Veiler for the opponent's first answer
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Droll & Lock Bird and Evenly Matched from the six-card hand to stop the opponent's first combo, then rebuild with the Maliss engine
• Recovery: Maliss monsters and traps recur from the GY and banish zone (Maliss MTP-07, Maliss in the Mirror, Maliss Chessy Cat), so the deck can re-link after a clear, but only with the Maliss pieces still in the Main Deck
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

The deck scores on its system, not on its card quality or popularity: the Maliss link engine (16 archetype-core copies, about 83% to have at least one in a 5-card opening hand) gives it a plausible route to Link 3-4 boards, and 13 hand traps plus 12 negation or removal texts give strong interaction density. Consistency is held back by a scattered build: only 7 of 25 archetype-standard core cards are present and 70 of 85 non-generic copies sit outside the exact Firewall name, spread across Maliss, Mulcharmy, @Ignister, Bystial and Code Talker with no Mulcharmy engine link. There are no recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are text-only inferences and stay low. The list is Illegal as submitted (four copy-limit violations), so it cannot take a normal Final Contextual score; the 36 is a theoretical, structural-only read that assumes the copies are cut to legal counts. Usage-statistics coverage does not add points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control profile (D1 9, D2 7, D3 4, D4 8, D5 10, D6 14, D7 14, D8 7, D9 3, D10 6, D11 3, D12 5, D13 7, D14 3). Structural ≈ 49, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violations (-9); Banlist exposure (-3). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 0.80*49 + 0.20*42 ≈ 48; Illegal-list cap applied through modifiers to 36 (theoretical, structural-only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.83 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ — (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Layered hand-trap and negation shell (13 hand traps, 13 negation texts)
• Link-monster Extra Deck with multiple 2300-2500 ATK payoffs (Red Ransom, Hearts Crypter, Accesscode Talker, Firewall Dragon)
• Maliss recursion through the GY and banish zone gives some resilience after a clear

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: four cards exceed copy limits
• Scattered engine: 70 of 85 non-generic copies are off the exact Firewall name, with no Mulcharmy engine link
• Only 7 of 25 archetype-standard core cards present (28%)
• No Side Deck registered
• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median cannot be verified

Critical choke points

• Droll & Lock Bird is run 2 copies against a legal limit of 1
• Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse are run 3 copies against a limit of 2
• Maliss monsters are the only route to the Link engine; losing them to a clear leaves few starters

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality status is Illegal with four copy-limit violations; Main 55, Extra 15, Side 0 are within size rules; Card text and banlist status for all listed cards; Composition counts (13 hand traps, 13 negation texts, 24 removal texts, 15 Link monsters)
• Inferred: Starter reliability (P ≈ 0.83 for the core group, 5-card hand); Hand-trap dead-in-hand risk and going-second interaction (P ≈ 0.82); Interaction quality and Link-engine conversion from card text; Pilotability from decision-point count
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament link); Side-deck adaptability (no Side Deck)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot record absent No win-rate or matchup telemetry in YGOVN Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample No Side Deck registered Deck title is null role_tag_counts reports 2 floodgate cards but only Dimensional Fissure is flagged in the card list